Spicer again calls end to his briefing. Used to be the Q and A went
on until the senior wire service reporter said "thank you.": image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 16 March 2017

Donald Trump speaks during a "Friends of
Ireland" luncheon on Capitol Hill, Thursday, March 16, 2017, in
Washington.: photo by Evan Vucci/AP, 16 March 2017

Copies
of President Donald Trump's first budget are displayed at the
Government Printing Office in Washington before dawn in Washington,
Thursday, March, 16, 2017. The $1.15 trillion presentation proposes a
reordering of national spending priorities, pumping significantly more
money into the military and homeland security while sharply cutting
foreign aid, medical research and the arts.: photo by J. Scott
Applewhite/AP, 16 March 2017

President Trump’s budget is out. Now the lobbying begins.: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

Evening Briefing: Here's what you need to know at the end of the day: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

Pious Paul of Ryan tells Jesus the poor can take care of themselves, writes @NickKristof: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

How, in a few short weeks, Tillerson has rendered the State Dept rudderless and irrelevant: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

Opinion: The increasing significance of the decline of men: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

A timeline of the White House's responses to the wiretapping charge: image via the New York Times @nytimes, 16 March 2017

goat parking

The Sweet Little Shamrock of Ireland: card with a bag of real shamrock seeds attached
in the top left corner, artist unknown, published by Lawrence (Dublin),
c.1905-1915: image by Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway,
7 March 2017

The Sweet Little Shamrock of Ireland:
card with a bag of real shamrock seeds attached in the top left corner,
artist unknown, published by Lawrence (Dublin), c.1905-1915: image by
Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway, 7 March 2017

The Sweet Little Shamrock of Ireland: card with a bag of real shamrock seeds attached in the top left corner,
artist unknown, published by Lawrence (Dublin), c.1905-1915: image by
Nasjonalbiblioteket / National Library of Norway, 7 March 2017

No
Trump. If your name is Trump, keep movin buddy, nobody is gonna grab
me! This saucy cat sat and stared at me as I put my camera right up
close and personal in Cobh a couple of weeks ago. Almost as much as to
say "Don't dare grab me mister"!!!!!: photo by swordscookie back and trying to catch up, 27 February 2017

The
long slow climb! While visiting the cathedral in Cobh which is set very
high above the town I saw these houses! Climbing step by step up the
hill they gave a diagonal like and the sense of taking a long slow climb
from the bottom to the top!: photo by swordscookie back and trying to catch up, 27 February 2017

Safe
parking! With the promise that I will keep an eye on your car this
mural provides safe parking! Spotted in in Quarteira on the Algarve in
Portugal!: photo by swordscookie back and trying to catch up, 16 October 2016

ROOO1906: photo by toufiq_ovi, 26 February 2017

ROOO1906: photo by toufiq_ovi, 26 February 2017

ROOO1906: photo by toufiq_ovi, 26 February 2017

green water and little white lies

Military honor guard in place at West Wing driveway and portico for arrival of Taioseach Enda Kenny for talks with Pres Trump.: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 16 March 2017

Pres Trump greets Taioseach Kenny at the West Wing Portico and escorts him to the Oval Office for their talks.: image via Mark Knoller @markknoller, 16 March 2017

A man plays in a
flooded street using an inner tube in Lima, Peru, Thursday, March 16,
2017. A new round of unusually heavy rains has killed at least a dozen
people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital. Authorities
said Thursday they expect the intense rains caused by the warming of
surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean to continue another two
weeks.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP, 16 March 2017

Neighbors work to
salvage belongings from their flooded home in Lima, Peru, Thursday,
March 16, 2017. A new round of unusually heavy rains has killed at least
a dozen people in Peru and now threatens flooding in the capital.
Authorities said Thursday they expect the intense rains caused by the
warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean to continue
another two weeks.: photo by Rodrigo Abd/AP,, 16 March 2017

A Kashmiri laborer load
goods on the roof of a bus in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir,
Thursday, March 16, 2017. Laborers, most of them who have come from
outside of the city, earn approximately rupees 300 (US $5) after a
daylong hard work.: photo by Mukhtar Khan/AP,, 16 March 2017

Blue smoke covers taxi
workers as they protest blocking the main city artery during a two-hour
mid-morning protest for their rights in Madrid, Spain, Thursday, March
16, 2017. Taxi drivers in Spain's Madrid and Barcelona were striking
Thursday to urge authorities to protect their regulated service against
companies such as Uber and Cabify that offer rides at a lower cost.: photo by Daniel Ochoa de Olza/AP, 16 March 2017

A visually impaired
woman assists her husband to button up his coat during an anti-austerity
rally in Athens, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Hundreds of people with
disabilities took to the streets to protest against government's
austerity measures which affect their income and state subventions.: photo by Yorgos Karahalis/AP, 16 March 2017

African migrants pray
at a small Greek Orthodox church at the Moria village, on the
northeastern Greek island of Lesbos, Thursday, March 16, 2017. Over
62,000 refugees and migrants are stranded in Greece after a series of
Balkan border closures and a European Union deal a year ago with Turkey
to stop migrant flows.: photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP, 16 March 2017

A Federal Police
soldier runs for cover during fighting against Islamic State militants
in western Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, March 16, 2017.: photo by Felipe Dana/AP, 16 March 2017

Ultra-Orthodox Jews get
hit by a police water canon during a protest against Israeli army
conscription, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March. 15 , 2017. Ultra-Orthodox
Jews have for years been exempt from military service, which is
compulsory for Jewish Israelis. The arrangement has caused widespread
resentment among Israel's secular majority. The ultra-Orthodox claim the
military will expose their youth to secularism and undermine their
devout lifestyle.: photo by Oded Balilty/AP, 15 March 2017

rag doll hanging from brick wall: a certain strangeness of being in the world ("... old man thinking of the old day...")

"...few hours back, during my evening walk, I saw this doll, hanging lonely from the wall...": photo by toufiq_ovi, 15 March 2017

"...few hours back, during my evening walk, I saw this doll, hanging lonely from the wall...": photo by toufiq_ovi, 15 March 2017

"...few hours back, during my evening walk, I saw this doll, hanging lonely from the wall...": photo by toufiq_ovi, 15 March 2017